Last week I shared with my kids one of my old riffs: “Many consider J.S. Bach to be the greatest musician of all time and he’s still underrated.” My 11-year old responded with a challenge: “First of all, you’ve said that before, and anyway if he’s really the greatest, have you even listened to all of his music?”
Very cool. I’ll have to check in. I bought the big yellow book of like 160 of his tunes to work on my site reading this year. It’s slow going… I think I’m going to have to listen-ahead and find ones that catch my ear. Some of the opening sinfoniettas aren’t too inspiring, albeit, still nice,but of course, the WTC never gets old and I’m sure I’ll be more productive being selective anyway. Cheerio.
Very cool. I’ll have to check in. I bought the big yellow book of like 160 of his tunes to work on my site reading this year. It’s slow going… I think I’m going to have to listen-ahead and find ones that catch my ear. Some of the opening sinfoniettas aren’t too inspiring, albeit, still nice,but of course, the WTC never gets old and I’m sure I’ll be more productive being selective anyway. Cheerio.
You can spend a rewarding the rest of your life going deep in that book. I’m working on my sight reading with it as well.